People might very well overestimate the likelihood for celebrity marriages to end in divorce, since celebrity divorces tend to be highly publicized (while happy celebrity marriages do not make front page news as easily). The overestimation could be explained in terms of ____
a. the representativeness heuristic
b. the availability heuristic
c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
d. information overload
B
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When the brain changes in response to psychotherapy, nonmaterial neuroscientists believe that ______ is responsible for the brain changes.
A. the brain B. the electrical signal C. the nerves D. the mind
Tinnitus may be ____.
A. suffered by those with conductive deafness B. seen in the very young C. due to a phenomenon like the phantom limb D. due to differential loudness
In a study of patients from the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia, Goldberg and Schmidt found that people with schizophrenia have:
a) Greater sociability b) Greater shyness c) Greater childhood aggression d) Greater drug use
The extent to which a measure can change or be different in the presence of a manipulation is called the ______ of a measure.
A. weight B. value C. sensitivity D. effect